Madagascar Trials

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The Madagascar Trials was a series of special-session court trials predecated on pre-Third World War international agreements, set up in the wake of that conflict by the Anti-Authoritarianism Treaty Organization, with the express purpose of prosecuting officials and military personnel from the Eurasian Soviet for crimes perpetrated by that nation during the Third World War. The trials were largely lead by African Confederation jurists and bereaucrats, with involvement by the original AATO member-states, the Oceanic Econo-Political Union and the South Asian Free States. USWE and Free Market Block officials were excluded from presiding over trials but occasionally served as witnesses for the prosecution, in part as part of the assurances given that the war itself would not be held as a crime.

The trials focused on the illegal use of nuclear, biological, and chemical weapons by the Soviets, including violations of the 1968 Outer Space Treaty in their Operation Suihou Fengbaou retaliation for the Sea of Tranquility Affair, and the Himalayan Mass Casualty Events. In particular, a contingent of high-ranking soviet officials who had escaped capture at the end of the war - the Big 20 - were tried in absentia and convicted on most charges, resulting in their de-facto exile from Earth given the Soviet Flight to the Moon.

The Madagascar Trials created a large class of incarcerated persons who needed to be housed specially. Out of concern for security and inmate safety, a special prison was constructed for them in the USWE Republic of England, Scotland, and Wales, which became known popularly as the London Facility.